ACLU Celebrates Raid on Trump’s Lawyer: ‘The Rule of Law is Alive’

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by Joel B. Pollak

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has published an article celebrating the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s personal lawyer as a victory for the rule of law — not a violation of attorney-client privilege and the president’s constitutional rights.

Earlier this week, the FBI raided attorney Michael Cohen’s office, apartment, and hotel room, seizing materials that included communications from Trump to his lawyer. The government typically cannot have access to those communications. In cases where it is necessary to study such communications, the FBI establishes a supposedly independent “taint team” that sifts through the material and, theoretically, only passes on evidence to prosecutors that does not violate attorney-client privilege.

However, critics allege that there is great potential for abuse, especially in a politically-charged case like this. They point out that such raids on attorneys are very rare, and argue that the president’s Fourth Amendment right to privacy, Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and Sixth Amendment right to counsel have been compromised.

Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, one of the country’s foremost defense lawyers and a civil libertarian who supported Hillary Clinton for president, condemned the raid

“If this were Hillary Clinton being investigated and they went into her lawyer’s office, the ACLU would be on every television station in America jumping up and down,” he told Fox News this week.

However, the ACLU not only condones the raid on Trump’s; it is applauding it. Continue reading at breitbart.com.

2 responses to “ACLU Celebrates Raid on Trump’s Lawyer: ‘The Rule of Law is Alive’”

Hillary’s Chief of Staff, Cheryl Mills, got to sit in on the questioning of Hillary because she was also designated as Mrs. Clinton’s attorney which allowed anything she knew to fall under the vail of “Attorney Client Privilege. If, in any of the shady incidents the Hildebeast was probably involved in, the FBI was to have raided Cheryl Mills’ home, office, etc. and confiscated volumes of information the anti-American American Civil Liberties Union would have gone berserk screaming “Constitutional Crisis!” and would have been filing briefs before the agents even got back to their offices.
The ACLU is an enemy of the people and, if you look closely at the backgrounds of their personnel you’ll find many American Jews as primary cogs in their anti-American machine. Let’s get real here.

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